I am getting morr dangerous...doing some reading.
So to have an AS we would need at minimum two ISPs connected with independent routes to the Internet via two separate Edge Routers. 
If we had say 12 AS located around the globe with 2 upstream providers at each AS we could independently route a global multihomed IP4 network to the internet with out any points of failure......and we could rule the world....oh sorry just slipped into a movie scene. 
 
Really that would be great and we would have a global redundant network to route radio traffic over the Internet and come out all over the world.  
 
Now how was it we were going to pay for that?
 
Lin